The biggest tourism event in Uganda will attract around 4,000 tourists this year from November 9-12 at the 4-day Nyege Nyege music festival. This annual event which began in 2015 will provide over a ...
It starts off like a house on fire. Then after a while they burn down the library. But we’ll get to that later. A dozen African-American artists begin by blasting out an enthusiastic melodious chant ...
Commercial success doing this kind of music in Uganda, let alone anywhere else in the world, is still a dream. 'Jazz' and 'Uganda' are rarely used in the same sentence. This little country in East ...
One of East Africa’s most popular music festivals has been cleared to go ahead after members of parliament tried to ban it for “promoting gays” in the country. The Nyege Nyege festival will now take ...
A music producer for Ugandan pop star and presidential candidate Bobi Wine has been wounded in the mouth by a rubber bullet ...
White African and Timbuktu Chronicles both report on the first company in Uganda to offer music downloads, True African. But it doesn't want to stay just doing that. Once more, writes the former, ...
Attired in a flashy crimson shirt and surrounded by security police, Apolo Milton Obote, the President of Uganda, was making his way through a cheering mob. He was leaving Kampala’s Lugogo Stadium, ...
A little over 6o years ago, African states gained independence from their colonial masters. It was assumed the wind of change would bring with it a new sense of nationalism, common good, and identity.
Nansana School in south central Uganda. When Melissa Cochran and Zach Stewart went to Uganda as volunteers in June 2008, they had no idea what they'd find there. "Before we left, people told us, ...